End Papers: Literary Recreations by A. Edward Newton. Dream Children Edition, with Illustrations.
by Newton, A. Edward
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1933. 8vo, 235 pp., limited to 1351 copies, this copy no 403, with full color frontispiece and 8 black and white illustrations. Folding facsimile of Lamb's "Dream Children" inserted into pocket on the rear pastedown. Cloth backed spine lettered in dark blue, blue boards with embossed design featuring Poseidon to upper board. Very good with a gift inscription on front free endpaper, without slipcase. § Signed by the author with a quotation on the limitation page: '"Mystery' says George Meredith 'is woman's redoubtable weapon.' They should not discard it. A Edward Newton." This limited edition also contains the additional chapter "Dream Children" which did not appear in the trade edition of the book.
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- John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (US)
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- Title
- End Papers: Literary Recreations by A. Edward Newton. Dream Children Edition, with Illustrations.
- Author
- Newton, A. Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little
- Place of Publication
- Boston
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